[RTC List] Potential Game Changer

[Kevin Nelson]

I think we must consider Verizon's experience in this area. The latest tower
they have tried to put up in Eureka cost them tens of thousands of dollars
in legal fees. This county is generally hostile to all "big" business. Most
of those dollars were spent making only lawyers wealthy, not for the sake of
Humboldt County.


--- On Fri, 5/15/09, William Van Hefner <vantek at humboldtonline.com> wrote:
From: William Van Hefner <vantek at humboldtonline.com>
Subject: Re: [RTC List] Potential Game Changer
To: list at redwoodtech.org
Date: Friday, May 15, 2009, 11:16 AM
Larry,

Considering Verizon's general lack of interest in making upgrades of ANY
kind to it's local facilities, things really couldn't get all
 that much
worse for it's customers in rural, Northern California, IMHO. So, I would
have to consider this good news.

As for FiOS, I think it was obvious that Verizon never had any intention
of bringing FiOS to it's subscribers in this part of the state, much as
AT&T has absolutely no plans whatsoever to bring it's FTTH project
here.
It would be great if Frontier would consider some sort of FTTH, or even
wireless data service. I don't know much about their wireless services
though.

Frontier started out as an ILEC in New York State, as I recall. They built
a fairly decent fiber network on the East Coast in the 1990's, where the
vast majority of their operations are still located (like Verizon). They
have never really been that competitive as a data carrier East of the
Mississippi though, unlike Verizon. Let's just hope for the best!


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